VDR channel list in vdradmin or watching TV does not match /var/lib/vdr/channels.conf despite importing using the web admin several times. The /var/lib/vdr/channels.conf file correctly matches what I upload.

In addition if I set a timer it never appears in the list in the web admin. I assume this is linked to the other issue.

I am about to buy some new HA kit and am either going to go with ZWave or PLCBUS. What's putting me off PLCBUS is that apparently it is only 2 times faster than X10. I heard though that you can program the units to respond to 5 scenes, so turning on 4 lights will be 8 times faster than X10. Is this scene triggered by a normal address command, like B10, from any device? Does this mean that LMCE supports them?

At the moment if I want to add automatic lighting to my home I am very limited. I can set up an event which lets me turn on a light if movement is detected in a room, and it's a certain time of day, and the house is occupied etc, but then there is no decent way to control how it is turned off. Additionally, whenever motion is detected in the room the light is turned on, even if it is already on, saturating the HA bus (for X10 this is a real problem).

We need something like this:

- Define which lights in a room should be controlled- Define which sensors in the room should be allowed to control the lights- Set additional criteria like brightness level from specified sensors, time of day, day/night from latitude/longitude- Give a time period after which if there is no movement the lights are turned off- Ability to specify a soft-on/soft-off, or a time where the lights dim and stay at that level for x minutes before turning off entirely etc- Not change lights (on or off) if you are watching media in a room- More???

Has anyone else got close to this? I would have thought this would be a popular feature. I have misterhouse doing this for me now and have got so lazy I couldn't live without automatic lights!

In a VDR recording, viewed from videos (ie not through VDR interface) I cannot ff/rw and when I pause the recording the bar does not show how far through it I am and there is no mm:ss type display at the top right where it usually is (UI2).

1. If motion detected in hall (No problem)2. And it's night (No problem) or Override switch (Generic I/O X10 device) is on (??)3. If I'm not watching a film, reset the counter to 3 mins, and if the hall light is not already on, turn it on

When I used the auto settings for sipgate in B4 I could not receive calls. Here are the steps I took to resolve the issue:

1. Switch to manual mode and enter FreePBX admin site2. Change DID in incoming route from phone number to sipgate usename (7 digit number)3. Change destination from "custom-linuxmce,102,1" to extensions, then select an extension

I also had to manually add an extension for my Budgetone 100 as it was only added to the DHCP conf, and not to asterisk.

Is anyone else having problems? Is it just sipgate? And what is wrong with the custom dial script?

I noticed that plutovdr was only present on my amd64 MDs, so i tried to install it manually:

apt-get install lmcevdr

The following packages have unmet dependencies: lmcevdr: Depends: vdr (>= 1.4.7-2LMCE0710-1) but it is not going to be installed Depends: vdr-plugin-xineliboutput (>= 1.0.0~rc2-2etch7-lmce0710-2) but it is not going to be installed Depends: vdr-plugin-control (>= 0.0.2a-33-lmce0710-1) but it is not installable Depends: libxine-xvdr (>= 1.0.0~rc2-2etch7-lmce0710-2) but it is not going to be installed Depends: libxineliboutput-sxfe (>= 1.0.0~rc2-2etch7-lmce0710-2) but it is not going to be installed Depends: xineliboutput-sxfe (>= 1.0.0~rc2-2etch7-lmce0710-2) but it is not going to be installedE: Broken packages

Note, this is with a cd install (I got the i386 MD image from the DVD).

Regards,

Chris

EDIT: Tried to install the dependencies manually. All ok, apart from:

Package vdr-plugin-control is not available, but is referred to by another package.This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, oris only available from another sourceE: Package vdr-plugin-control has no installation candidate